NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

[Greebo]

I think they're just orders. Isn't that the date they start to ship?

Since they are technically released on those days, you are right. There are no pre orders, just orders from that time.

Depends how much stock comes in by that date and how fast they sell. I can see some popular brands might become preorder within minutes.

Plus I cant see every model from every manufacturer being available right from day 1. EVGA are normally quite slow with their FTW and hydro copper cards and they tend to follow weeks after the more vanilla cards.

 

[Greebo]

its only 30w more power and it uses the same die. 140% extra ram will account for that extra power alone. There is also a 18.6% more Shaders. Its going to be a far chunk faster for not much more power

Yeah it really puzzles me why the 3080 uses so much more power relatively.

 

[Vertigo]

The 3090 does not have the price tag of a Titan and they are positioning it as a pure gaming GPU unlike the Titan.

No they're not, it's still positioned largely as a workhorse card for content creation and the like. The "8K gaming" stuff was a total gimmick.

Jensen repeatedly referred to the 3080 as the "flagship" card.

 

[bicpug]

8K gaming spiel was pointless, i've still never even seen an 8k tv for sale.

 

[Smiffy-UK]

8K gaming spiel was pointless, i've still never even seen an 8k tv for sale.

I had seen an 8K monitor for about 4k the other day.

Edit: Dell has one for about 2k ish

 

[Poneros]

why is the 3090 so big and power hungry if it barely offers any performance improvements over the 3080?

Diminishing returns.

 

[Ayahuasca]

No they're not, it's still positioned largely as a workhorse card for content creation and the like. The "8K gaming" stuff was a total gimmick.

Jensen repeatedly referred to the 3080 as the "flagship" card.

He referred to it as the flagship before introducing the 3090 from the oven. I think it was part of the act...

The only thing that positions the 3090 as a workhorse card would be the price. If nVidia really wanted to position it as such it would have a different naming convention. It's a gaming card for those who want the very best.

 

[benjii]

8K gaming spiel was pointless, i've still never even seen an 8k tv for sale.

You can buy them in Curry's, amongst other places. At least LG, Sony and Samsung have them, I don't know about others.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Yeah it really puzzles me why the 3080 uses so much more power relatively.

Because its poorer quality silicon??

 

[Guest2]

The only thing that positions the 3090 as a workhorse card would be the price. If nVidia really wanted to position it as such it would have a different naming convention. It's a gaming card for those who want the very best.

Something like "BFGPU"

 

[Richdog]

He referred to it as the flagship before introducing the 3090 from the oven. I think it was part of the act...

The only thing that positions the 3090 as a workhorse card would be the price. If nVidia really wanted to position it as such it would have a different naming convention. It's a gaming card for those who want the very best.

To me, the announcing of the 3080 as the "flagship" is clearly because they want it to represent the high-end of gaming in the mind's eye of the userbase. The 3090 is being marketed as a niche product, something that is in price and performance terms individual and seperate from the main gaming lineup that fulfils not only a gaming role but also professional content creation and science work.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Something like "BFGPU"

Big ferocious ties in with the stupid gaming terminology you see marketed on cards. It doesn't suggest it's a workstation card in my eyes, of course, it's capable of that but the pricing is only slightly higher than people were paying for brand new 2080ti's not long ago.

 

[TNA]

Yeah it really puzzles me why the 3080 uses so much more power relatively.

Better quality silicon is my guess.

 

[burtie]

Looking at the Zotac 3080 for £650 for me, my daughter is getting my 1080ti god bless it and my other daughter is getting a vega 56.

Will be left with a Radeon 570 4gb as the plastic pig if the others fail!!

 

[Guest2]

Are there actually any real world game benchmarks out yet for the 3000 series, comparing it to 2000 and 1000 series?

 

[TNA]

He referred to it as the flagship before introducing the 3090 from the oven. I think it was part of the act...

The only thing that positions the 3090 as a workhorse card would be the price. If nVidia really wanted to position it as such it would have a different naming convention. It's a gaming card for those who want the very best.

1+

It’s just clever marketing.

 

[wizzywig27]

Any idea when current 20xx models will start to drop in price on the Nvidia website. Outgoing models are still full price on the website and more expensive than the new ones.

 

[bJN]

Are there actually any real world game benchmarks out yet for the 3000 series, comparing it to 2000 and 1000 series?

No, and likely won't be until 17th.

 

[chroniclard]

Are there actually any real world game benchmarks out yet for the 3000 series, comparing it to 2000 and 1000 series?

No. Few videos comparing some things but no real details.

 

[southy1978]

Will ocuk be stocking fe cards or is that only an nvidia direct order kind of thing? My first time getting a card on release and my first fe card.